debbie wasserman

Did you guys see this story: A Florida congresswoman has just gone public with her cancer battle...over a year after she was diagnosed. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (a democrat from Florida) was diagnosed in December 2007 and ultimately endured a double mastectomy, and had her ovaries removed—all while working her butt off in Washington D.C. I've written about this before, but this case is different because it involves a poitician. A female politician. She wanted to protect her young children (she didn't tell them either), but she also wanted to be taken as seriously as ever at work, something I imagine can be a struggle to begin with in the male-dominated congress: "I just didn't want it to define me. When I'm quoted in the newspaper, I didn't want to be 'Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who's battling breast cancer,'" she said. "I wanted to be viewed as a congresswoman, as a mom, as a fighter." She also didn't want people to somehow expect less of her—or ask less of her—because of her health. I completely get this. But I can't imagine it. What happens when you're feeling like %$&^! and some jerk starts mouthing off about something. I would bet there read more